Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] grub: upgrade 2.12 -> 2.14

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Sat Feb 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM CET, Yi Zhao via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> ChangeLog:
> * libgcrypt 1.11.
> * LVM LV integrity and cachevol support.
> * EROFS support.
> * GRUB environment block inside the Btrfs header support.
> * NX support for EFI platforms.
> * shim loader protocol support.
> * BLS and UKI support.
> * Argon2 KDF support.
> * TPM2 key protector support.
> * Appended Signature Secure Boot Support for PowerPC.
> * New option to block command line interface.
> * Support dates outside of 1901..2038 range.
> * zstdio decompression support.
> * EFI code improvements and fixes.
> * TPM driver fixes.
> * Filesystems fixes.
> * CVE and Coverity fixes.
> * Tests improvements.
> * Documentation improvements.
>
> Drop backport patches.
> Refresh local patches.
> Split grub-bash-completion package by inheriting bash-completion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>
> ---

Hi Yi,

Thanks for the upgrade.

It looks like this is breaking the wic.Wic.test_grub_install_pcbios
selftest:

2026-02-16 08:00:28,031 - oe-selftest - INFO - wic.Wic.test_grub_install_pcbios (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-02-16 08:00:28,031 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
AssertionError: Command 'wic create /tmp/tmprjgt61lz.wks -e core-image-minimal -o /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/wic-tmp' returned non-zero exit status 1:
...

ERROR: _exec_cmd: export PATH=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/sbin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/sbin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/x86_64-poky-linux:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-poky-linux/wic-tools/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/hosttools:$PATH;grub-mkimage         --prefix=/boot/grub         --format=i386-pc         --config=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/embed.cfg         --directory=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc         --output=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/grub-bios-core.img boot linux ext2 fat serial part_msdos part_gpt         normal multiboot probe biosdisk msdospart configfile search loadenv test returned '1' instead of 0
output: grub-mkimage: error: `/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/build-st-2845082/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img' is miscompiled: its start address is 0x9074 instead of 0x9000: ld.gold bug?.

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/3098
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/3332

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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